Machine foe cutting vegetables



H. A. WILLARD. Vegetable Cutter.

Paten ted Feb. 17, 1857.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

H. A. WILLARD, OF \VESTMINSTER, VERMONT.

MACHINE FOR CUTTING VEGETABLES.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 16,667, dated February 17, 1857.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, H. A. \VILLARD, of Vestminster, in the county of Vindham and State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful improvement in vegetable-cutters for cutting roots for all the varieties of stock, and particularly for sheep, being also well adapted to cutting other varieties of vegetables of whatever size or shape; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view. Fig. 2 plan of small cutter plate. Fig. 3, plan of cutter. Fig. 4C, elevation of cutter. Fig. 5, plan of large cutter plate.

The size of large machine is four feet high and 201; x seventeen inches inside, made of one inch boards. The band H forming the top finish is two inches wide and one half inch thick. Band I one inch thick by three inches wide, serves as a foundation for the bearings of arbor G. The band J two inches square, serves to enlarge the base and finish the same.

Fig. 5 represents large sized cutter plate 20% inches in diameter by inch thick.

The orifices, through which the cut vegetable passes into the lower part of the machine are one and. one fourth inches in diameter. The arrangement of these to insure a continuous and equal cutting surface is made by dividing the plate into sixteen divisions by the radii 1, 2, 3, &c., and drawing sixteen circles 1, 2, 3, &c., inch apart, commencing 1% inches from the periphery.

The following table represents the arrangement of the cutters in reference to the intersection of the circles and the radii, each bemg numbered:

\ No. of No. of No. of cutters. radii. circle.

1 1 1 2 9 1 3 13 2 4 5 2 5 11 3 (i 3 3 7 7 4 8 15 4 9 10 5 1O 2 (i 11 6 7 12 14 8 13 4 9 14 12 10 15 16 11 16 8 12 17 10 13 18 2 14 19 6 15 2O 14 16 The cutter B, Fig. 3, is formed with a die made by placing a transverse section of a cylinder, the base of which is a semicircle, and the diameter 1% inches upon a plane, with a follower to fit. This operated by a press or hammer.

The manner of securing the cutter to the plate is represented by Fig. 5. The small orifices, each side of the large ones, are reamed out upon the back side and filled with dry, hard wood, then a wood screw is sufficient to secure it firmly. The cutter plate A, is secured to the arbor G, by screwing up to a shoulder, or by being chucked to fit a set screw, as in the model. The cutter plate A, is removed from the machine at pleasure by drawing the screw c, and removing the guard D, when the set screw may be reached.

hat I claim as my improvement is The cutter B, in combination with the metallic cutter plate A, together with the particular arrangement of the cutters upon tact with the knives, thereby cutting with the cutter plate, in such a manner that sevgreater rapidity, With less power, and leaveral are acting upon the vegetable at the ing the cut vegetable in a more desirable same time; and, that as soon as one has com- I shape for mastication than any machine now 5 menced another immediately follows, so that l in use.

While a portion are leaving the vegetable and holding it firmly to the plate, others i are commencing, preventing by this arrangement the vegetable from rotating or 10 dodging, and keeping it continually in con- H. A. WILLARD, Vitnesses DANIEL GAMPBELL, PEYTON RAMEY. 

